Vpool88

Truth Seeker/Constitutionalist/Critical Thinker

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

"What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they fail, they receive the money; in so far as they succeed, even to a moderate extent, the money is taken away."

— Thomas Sowell

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

“Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose socialism.”

— Margaret Thatcher

[Vpool88 @Vpool88]

@FleetXAdmiral @smokenscanent Ah, good to know.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

"Our educational system may not teach students much math or science, but students learn from gutless academic administrators that mob rule is the way to get what you want — and to silence those who disagree with you."

— Thomas Sowell

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.”

— Milton Friedman

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

"What a 'fair share' of taxes means in practice is simply 'more.' No matter how high the tax rate is on people with a given income, you can always raise the tax rate further by saying that they are still not paying their 'fair share.'"

— Thomas Sowell

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

“What ‘multiculturalism’ boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture—and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.”

— Thomas Sowell

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

“Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it.”

— Ronald Reagan

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

“Despite whatever the left may say, or even believe, about their concern for the poor, their actual behavior shows their interest in the poor to be greatest when the poor can be used as a focus of the left’s denunciations of society.”

— Thomas Sowell

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

“Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.”

— Thomas Sowell

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

“Envy used to be just a human failing, but today it is a major industry. Politicians, journalists and academics are all part of that industry, which some call ‘social justice.’”

— Thomas Sowell

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

“Many highly schooled people are uneducated, and many highly educated people are unschooled.”

— Milton Friedman

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

“One of the most pathetic—and dangerous—signs of our times is the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one can possibly disagree with them for any honest reason.”

— Thomas Sowell

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

“Some people who are very dissatisfied with their lives nevertheless have no intention of changing their own behavior. They want to keep on doing what they have always done, but just have it turn out differently.”

— Thomas Sowell

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

“Advice to the young: You don’t have to listen to anybody. You can learn everything from your own personal experience. Of course, you will be at least 50 years old by the time you know what you need to know at 25.”

— Thomas Sowell

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@smokenscanent

[R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts]

🚨#BREAKING: Waffle House has announced a new surcharge of 50 cents per egg in response to rising egg prices caused by a nationwide shortage

[Steve Keeley @KeeleyFox29]

BULLETIN: SIX KILLED ON AIRPLANE THAT JUST TOOK OFF FROM NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA AIRPORT @PhillyPolice sources tell me here on the scene. TWO DOCTORS, TWO PILOTS, ONE PATIENT & ONE FAMILY MEMBER. No update yet on any victims on the ground.

[Shane B. Murphy @shanermurph]

Dashcam video alleging to show plane crash and resultant explosion in NE Philadelphia.